Old School
...They're smiling leniently don’t be silly
You can’t be apolitical these days
I’m smiling back I don’t trust them initially,
It doesn’t fall under a criminal offence
I’m fascinated by the incongru...
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Categories:
apolitical, color, endurance, mystery, political,
Form: Rhyme
Fanfares of the Common Man
...At the breakdown of ages man disappears and reappears
In the form of an easy-to-use scheme
Over the last half-century, man has been replaced
By technocratic ideas of what a man is
But the real ma...
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Categories:
apolitical, political,
Form: Free verse
A Picasso President
...I have claimed to be apolitical but there are times
when the crop is ready for harvesting, so I put fuel
in the John Deere, ink in my pen and wrote...
He'll get millions of votes for ...
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Categories:
apolitical, how i feel,
Form: Limerick
Prolonging Pain
...prolonging pain
ongoing insane
subverting hurting
ain't working
dodging the day
gets me no pay
prices up wages flat
elect a democrat
who does better than
what's done by republican
spending...
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Categories:
apolitical, anger, ireland,
Form: Free verse
Clerihew Spender
...English Poet Stephen Spender
political verse seemed to prefer
Later though a change instead
to the apolitical he was led...
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Categories:
apolitical, people,
Form: Clerihew
Apolitical Political Poet
...I don't listen to the heralds
I don't hear; the Nymphs I'm skeptical
blind deaf and mute I don't deny...,...
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Categories:
apolitical, allegory, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
At the Polls
...I didn’t see Alhaji Sule, the big contractor
Though he is a sponsor with a huge stake in government.
I didn’t see Chief Ade the financial banker
Though he is well-versed on political palavers.
I ...
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Categories:
apolitical, africa, betrayal, humanity, irony,
Form: Free verse
Coronavirus Blues
...Crazy COVID-19 has us all in a tizzy
Too much information making all of us dizzy
Most who’ve been exposed self-quarantine
Running out of toilet paper making us mean
“Social distancing” is...
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Categories:
apolitical, anxiety, fear, sick,
Form: Lyric
While Driving
...I'm not a poem,
Nor a limerick.
I am not a pun
Nor am I a joke.
I'm not a scene from an apolitical
Horror movie.
To be more concise,
I'm easy to find.
Just look into my eyes
and you will...
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Categories:
apolitical, appreciation, desire, for teens,
Form: Free verse
Apolitical
...Anybody
Answerable
As
Anarchy
Arrives
After
Apathy
Accrues
And
Action
Abates?
All
Affected.
Aspirations
Annihilated.
Armageddon
Anticipated.
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Categories:
apolitical, political,
Form: Tautogram
Today
...
Today,
7-5-2016
Lady Justice removed her mask,
And with her finger, the scales were tipped.
She no longer remains apolitical,
But has become a harlot,
Willing to pitch herself to th...
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Categories:
apolitical, today,
Form: Free verse
Is Heaven Gonna Come
...People with all the bad things happening
Doom is on its way
With all the people on the run
Is heaven gonna come
Again nuclear warnings, global warming
North Korea here to free us
Alktha accu...
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Categories:
apolitical, adventure, allegory, anxiety, community,
Form: Lyric
How Interesting Is a Two Curved Toucan
...senators seeing stapled starkers
Loopholes. Lanky long. Llama Klamath llama please do not lean on those bent gables. For gables are gargling and gargling sounds very eerily similar to a gaggle of ge...
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Categories:
apolitical, april, arabic, art, august,
Form: I do not know?
Existentially Deconstructing the Knock-Knock Joke Into the Perfect Moral Tale
..."Knock-Knock!" - Who's there?
"Diaphragms!" - Diaphragms who?
"Diaphragms...Don't always seem to work...
...I don't know how else to tell you this...
...So I am just gonna say it
as politically...
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Categories:
apolitical, angst, father, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
Live Life As If a Miracle
...Inspired by the movie “Miracles from Heaven (2016)”
Live life as if a miracle
Open your eyes you’ll see
Undeniably biblical
It’s truly gluten-free
Some mig...
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Categories:
apolitical, appreciation, blessing, life, miracle,
Form: Acrostic
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